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What is Your ‘go to’ Kata for Learning Balance?

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Balance is one of those principles that should have been realized and a part of training from the get-go. What I am saying is that upon starting in a system you should have been introduced to what Isshinryu’ists call “Basics, i.e., Upper and Lower body basic techniques.” There are what some call body mechanics, I tend to call them physiokinetics as follows:

These are the principles that provide you the many aspects of what some call, “Balance.” They are not exclusive, i.e., you just learn about balance, but a inter-connected, yin-yang type thing, set of principles that are holistically molded and melded into “One wholehearted” application or goal, the goal being to achieve proficiency and efficient applied principles in the fight.

I do understand your tendency to take each as an individual principle to learn and that is good but don’t tie them to any one aspect of your training and practice except to encode it with intent toward blending into one, the essence of a fighting/defensive system.

Balance is not just about the stability of your body when applying martial techniques but a holistic balance of the body, the mind and the resulting spirit. This is why new students should be introduced to not just basic teachniques, i.e., te-no-bu and ashi-no-bu, but those principles that transcend technique to achieve techniques.

As you can see readily enough from just the lists provided that as a novice there is much to learn at that level and that is just the academic side let alone learning how to apply the same physically, mentally and spiritually. Note that the one on chemical cocktails is a entry point toward adrenal stress conditioning through reality based training.

Remember that this is something that should be understood before learning the kata, kata drills, etc., as this is how we achieve a state of mind, mind-set, that will take us across the chasm between sport and reality of violence and conflict, the lead we all have to make regardless, the mind we need to make ourselves leap.

A key issue to understand in all of this is that we must not get caught up in the atomistic, the plethora of minutiae, details, because once you get those individual principles understood then the challenge is assimilating them under stress oriented conditioning where they work holistically, as a whole one thing, that changes according to circumstances. You can’t achieve this goal focusing on the atomistic after a certain level of training and practice.

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